I'm watching the show and I'm watching the audience watch the show. Because once you leave the rehearsal … - George C. Wolfe

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

George C. Wolfe

I'm watching the show and I'm watching the audience watch the show. Because once you leave the rehearsal room, you have space and you can see it. You can watch them watch it. You can't see your work, really, until you're in the theater. You have no perspective. That's not part of my job, to go, "Oh my God, they're so brilliant. " I'm not required to swoon.

Audience, Brilliant, Part, Perspective, Work

Same Author Quotes

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Dance, Dancing, Madness, Music

God created black people and black people created style.

Black, God, People, Style

With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play.

Begin, Hear, People, Play, Ten, Three

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender. It takes you probably five to six minutes to build trust with an audience. A musical you can build trust in three notes. Boom, boom, boom, you're instantly seduced. So musicals have this easy potency, but generally, in my opinion, they waste them, because a musical is incredibly hard to do.

Boom, Control, Journey, Musical, Opinion

Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it's supposed to be, there's a violent reaction. So we had a black president, and it's followed by an incredibly violent reaction. It happens over and over.

Black, Cultural, Culture, President, Time